Abu Ghraib

When this story broke I had a feeling that the men [ and at least one woman ] were fall guys, the ones up the sharp end being thrown to the wolves. One of them was Lynndie England, a young woman from the boondocks, brought up in poverty with little education. She was written up by the Mainstream Media, presumably because she was naive and willing to talk. There is a biography about her, TORTURED Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs that Shocked the World. She sued Gary S. Winkler, a one off author of her book. See Lynndie England Sues Tortured Biographer. He seems to have made some moves to get all of the profits. It is now, in 2021 out of print.

The commandant of #Abu Ghraib Prison was Janis Karpinski, a Brigadier with an education. She should have known what was going on but had the gall to complain about being reduced in rank.

The Wiki let slip that they were using Jews as interrogators on the grounds that they spoke Arabic. It does not mention that they are expert torturers who undoubtedly knew what was being done to prisoners. In fact they were probably doing it. They were bright enough not to get photographed.

Abu Ghraib Prison ex Wiki
Abu Ghraib prison (Arabic: سجن أبو غريب‎, Sijn Abū Ghurayb) was a prison complex in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, located 32 kilometers (20 mi) west of Baghdad. Abu Ghraib prison was opened in the 1950s and served as a maximum-security prison with torture, weekly executions, and squalid living conditions. From the 1980s, the prison was used by Saddam Hussein and later the United States to hold political prisoners. It developed a reputation for torture and extrajudicial killing, and was closed in 2014.

Abu Ghraib gained international attention in 2003 following the invasion of Iraq, when a scandal involving the torture and abuse of detainees committed by guards in part of the complex operated by US-led Coalition occupation forces was exposed. Israeli interrogators were in Iraq, alongside the Coalition, because they spoke Arabic.^[1][2]

In 2006, the United States transferred complete control of Abu Ghraib to the federal government of Iraq, and was reopened in 2009 as Baghdad Central Prison (Arabic: سجن بغداد المركزي Sijn Baġdād al-Markizī), but was closed in 2014 due to security concerns from the Iraqi Civil War. The prison complex is currently vacant, and Saddam-era mass graves have been uncovered at the site.

 

Lynndie England ex Wiki
Lynndie Rana England (born November 8, 1982)^[1] is a former United States Army Reserve soldier who was prosecuted for mistreating detainees during the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse that occurred at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the Iraq War.^[2] She was one of eleven military personnel from the 372nd Military Police Company who were convicted in 2005 for the war crimes. After being sentenced to three years in prison and a dishonorable discharge, England was incarcerated from September 27, 2005 to March 1, 2007 when she was released on parole.

Early Life
Born in Ashland, Kentucky,^[3] England moved with her family to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, when she was two years old. She was raised by her mother, Terrie Bowling England, and her father Kenneth R. England Jr., a railroad worker, who worked at a station in Cumberland, Maryland. She aspired to be a storm chaser.^[2] As a young child, England was diagnosed with selective mutism, a form of an anxiety disorder.^[4]

England joined the United States Army Reserve in Cumberland in 1999 while she was a junior at Frankfort High School near Short Gap. England worked as a cashier in an IGA store during her junior year of high school and married a co-worker, James L. Fike, in 2002, but they later divorced.^[5] England also wished to earn money for college, so that she could become a storm chaser. She was also a member of the Future Farmers of America. After graduating from Frankfort High School in 2001, she worked a night job in a chicken-processing factory in Moorefield.^[6] She was deployed to Iraq in June 2003.^[7]

England was engaged to fellow reservist and Abu Ghraib prison guard Charles Graner. In 2004, she gave birth to a son fathered by him^[2][8] at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg.

 

Janis Karpinski ex Wiki
Janis Leigh Karpinski (née Beam, born May 25, 1953) is a retired career officer in the United States Army Reserve. She is notable for having commanded the forces that operated Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, at the time of the scandal related to torture and prisoner abuse. She commanded three prisons in Iraq and the forces that ran them. Her education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and secondary education from Kean College, a Master of Arts degree in aviation management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a Master of Arts in strategic studies from the United States Army War College.

In June 2003, during the United States-led occupation of Iraq, Karpinski was given command of the 800th Military Police Brigade, which meant she was responsible for the 15 detention facilities in southern and central Iraq run by Coalition forces. Karpinski was also given command of the National Guard and Army reserve units in the Iraqi city of Mosul. In January 2004, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez formally suspended Karpinski and 16 other soldiers with undisclosed reprimands. An investigation was started into the abuse at Abu Ghraib, and Karpinski left Iraq for reasons that were explained at the time as part of "routine troop rotations."

On April 8, 2005, Karpinski was formally relieved of command of the 800th Military Police Brigade. On May 5, 2005, President George W. Bush approved Karpinski's demotion to colonel from the rank of brigadier general. Her demotion was not related officially to the abuse at Abu Ghraib.

In October 2005, she published an account of her experiences, One Woman's Army, in which she claims that the abuses were done by contract employees trained in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, and sent to Abu Ghraib under orders from the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. She said her demotion was political retribution.^[2]

Since this time, some of Karpinski's claim of top-level authorization have been affirmed by revelations of what are known as the Torture Memos, legal opinions prepared by political appointees including John Yoo in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice. His memo of March 14, 2003, five days before the US began its invasion of Iraq, concluded that federal laws related to torture and other abuses did not apply to interrogators working overseas; it was issued to William J. Haynes, the General Counsel of DOD, and finally revealed in 2008 as a result of a Senate hearing into enhanced interrogation techniques.^[3]

 

 

From Abu Ghraib Prison Photos

Abu Ghraib Prison Photos 

11 June 2004